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Jefferson was born on March 1, 1863, in Melrose, Massachusetts, the fifth son and youngest of seven children of Daniel Jefferson and Mary (Mantz) Jefferson. His father, an English bibliophile, immigrated to the United States in 1849 with his wife and first child. After a stay in Baltimore, he found work in the editorial department of a New York publishing firm, and later with Little, Brown and Company of Boston.
Jefferson attended local public schools and at the age of 17 enrolled at Boston University in the eleven-man class of 1884. There he studied languages, physics, astronomy, and mathematics, and came to know fellow student Bernard Berenson. From 1897 to 1899 he studied geography and geology at Harvard (B. A. , 1897; M. A. , 1898).
After three years at the university, an opportunity for serious work in Argentina presented itself. Eager to hear languages spoken in the philological laboratory of the Argentine, Jefferson accepted a position as assistant computer in the National Observatory of the Republic, working under Benjamin Apthorp Gould. He scanned the Southern heavens from Cordoba for three years until bothered by eye fatigue. For a time he taught languages in Cordoba; he then accepted a position as sub-manager and treasurer of La Providencia sugar estate on Argentina's frontier in the irrigable piedmont of the Andine Northwest.
In 1889 he returned to Boston, completed the requirements for a bachelor degree, then taught in the Mitchell Boys School at Billerica (1890-1891), was principal at Turners Falls High School (1891-1893), and superintendent of schools in Lexington, Massachusetts (1893-1896). For the next two years he worked under William Morris Davis, with whom he commenced an intellectual relationship that lasted until Davis' death in 1934. From 1898 to 1901 Jefferson taught at the Brockton High School. In 1900 he was invited to teach geography (in Spanish) at the Harvard Cuban summer school, and as a result of an admirable performance, Davis found him a position at the Michigan State Normal School, Ypsilanti, in 1901.
In the years 1901 to 1939, he taught sixty-two different courses at Ypsilanti, stimulating 15, 000 students, and developed a remarkable disciple-record that won for the college the appellation "nursery of America geographers. " Jefferson wrote texts for several of his courses: Teachers Geography (1906), Man in Europe (1924), Principles of Geography (1926), Exercises in Human Geography (1930), Man in the United States (1933). These and other texts and outline maps went through many editions. Notwithstanding his profound admiration for Davis' work it was in his departure from Davisian physiography that Jefferson perhaps made his largest contribution. Regarding the earth science recommended by the report of the 1892 Committee of Ten of the National Education Association as an incomplete geography, he insisted that man was an important part of the discipline. He helped prepare the influential "man in geography manifesto" presented before the NEA at Denver in 1908 and published much on this theme.
A vigorous and enthusiastic fieldworker, he visited parts of four continents, taking many photographs, and making many friends. In this way he amassed a remarkable collection of 7, 500 slides. Friendships created on these occasions led to a substantial correspondence. Facility in approximately thirteen languages enabled him to surmount linguistic barriers. Jefferson contributed approximately 120 books and articles to geographic literature. He presented twenty-five papers before the Association of American Geographers (a record for the first half century of Association existence, 1904-1954), and had more articles (thirty-one) published in The Geographical Review and its predecessor, The Bulletin of The American Geographical Society, than any other geographer before or since. Many of his contributions have won for themselves a permanent and abiding place in the history of the discipline; "The Anthropography of Some Great Cities" (1909), "The Civilizing Rails" (1928), "Distribution of the World's City Folks" (1931), and "The Law of the Primate City" (1939) are perhaps his most often quoted articles.
He was a pioneer in urban geography in the United States, minted the term "central place" (1931), and offered one of the first courses in urban geography in the United States ("Geography of Cities, " 1931). He was chief cartographer for the American Commission to Negotiate Peace at Paris, 1918-1919, and in this capacity helped supervise the compilation of some four hundred maps; he was appointed American representative to the Geographical Commission of the Paris Peace Conference. Jefferson died of pneumonia at his Ypsilanti home at the age of eighty-six, on August 8, 1949. Following cremation, his ashes were buried at Woodmere Cemetery in Detroit.
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Jefferson served as President of the Michigan Academy of Science (1907), President of the Association of American Geographers (1916), and was a member of the National Research Council (1932), a corresponding member of the Belgrade Geographical Society (1920), a corresponding member of the Anthropology and Geography Society, Stockholm (1925), and a corresponding member of the University of Belgrade Geographical Society (1932).
Jefferson married Theodora Augusta Bohnstedt at Gilmanton, New Hampshire, on August 22, 1891. They had 5 children. After his wife's death in 1913, he married Clara Frances Hopkins at Holland, Michigan, on June 17, 1915. The couple had 3 children.
He was an American geographer, geologist, geomorphologist, and meteorologist, often called the "father of American geography."
